The members and staff at 3PB (3 Paper Buildings) wish to extend to our colleagues at Harcourt Chambers our deepest sympathies on learning of the death of our dear friend Simon Miller. A former member of chambers, Simon was a key part in the development and the success of 3PB's Oxford office. His funeral is being held this afternoon Friday 25 April 2025. A gifted family barrister, Simon will be remembered for his dedication to...
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3PB (3 Paper Buildings) today welcomed family barrister Shan Parker (call: 2018) who has moved to 3PB from another well-known chambers on the South Coast of England, where she completed her pupillage two years ago. Shan already enjoys a diverse and busy family law practice across the whole of the South and South-West of England, focusing on private law children cases and matrimonial finance disputes as well as care and adoption matters. In the last...
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3PB family barristers Andrew Duncan and Gemma Chapman, led by 4PB's Alison Grief KC and Sam King KC respectively, represented the mother and father in the complex, non-accidental head injury case of Re X & Y (Children) [2024] EWFC 443 (B), where the challenge of expert views under cross-examination led to the mother being exonerated from causing injury and the father deemed to have done so using lesser force and without intention. In a climate...
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The Court of Appeal has today handed down judgment in M (A Child: Intermediaries) [2025] EWCA Civ 440, granting an appeal brought by a Mother against the refusal of the trial Judge to permit her to be assisted by an intermediary during a Fact-Finding Hearing to determine how her (then) 10-month-old son sustained a serious fracture to his skull. Lord Justice Peter Jackson considered the decisions of Lieven J in West Northamptonshire Council v KA...
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